Adena Springs' nine-horse stallion roster is led by Ghostzapper, who finished 2017 as the eighth general leading sire in North America.

A homebred son of Adena Kentucky stallion Awesome Again, Ghostzapper enjoyed considerable success in 2017 with 15 black-type winners, eight graded winners, and two grade 1 winners, and his progeny earnings exceeded $10.3 million. His 2018 fee will be $85,000, increased from $75,000 last year.

Adena Kentucky first-crop sires Point of Entry and Fort Larned were both represented by their first stakes winners in 2017, with Fort Larned's daughter Blonde Bomber earning a placing in the 14 Hands Winery Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1).

First-crop yearlings by Mucho Macho Man, a millionaire and grade 1-winning son of Adena stallion Macho Uno, were well received at the sales. Mucho Macho Man ranked among the top first-crop sires at the Keeneland September sale by median and by average.

The 2018 breeding season may also see the addition of multiple grade 1 winner and Canadian champion Shaman Ghost. The son of Ghostzapper is still in training. His fee will be announced upon retirement.

Ocala Stud has set stud fees for its 11-stallion roster for 2018, led again by Canadian Horse of the Year Uncaptured and Grade 1 winner The Big Beast, who will both stand for a fee of $6,000 S&N.

Uncaptured has been Florida’s most popular stallion in recent years, covering a state-high 140 mares in 2017. The multiple Graded stakes-winning millionaire by Lion Heart was represented by his first crop of yearlings in 2017, which averaged $37,046 at the sales and included a $170,000 filly at OBS October. The Big Beast, by former Florida champion freshman sire Yes It’s True, was represented by his first crop of weanlings this year, including a $40,000 colt at Keeneland November.

Florida’s second most-popular stallion in 2017 proved to be first-year sire Jess’s Dream, who bred 122 mares. The regally-bred son of two Horse of the Year winners – Curlin and Rachel Alexandra – will head into his second season at stud in 2018 with his fee unchanged at $5,000 S&N.

Ocala Stud welcomes two new Grade 1-winning stallions to its 2018 roster – Greenpointcrusader and Noble Bird. Greenpointcrusader, Bernardini’s winner of the Champagne S. (G1) as a 2-year-old, will stand his first season for $5,000 S&N. Noble Bird, the millionaire multiple graded stakes winner who scored his biggest win in the Stephen Foster H. (G1), will also stand for an introductory fee of $5,000 S&N.

he Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association recently announced its 2018 stud fees and will stand American sires The Factor and Creator in 2018.

The two sires join JBBA's roster at Shizunai Stallion Complex in Hokkaido, where nine stallions including Johannesburg and Eskendereya will stand in 2018.

The Factor, on lease to JBBA for the 2018 Northern Hemisphere season, will stand for ¥2,000,000 (more than US$17,500). The son of War Front , who won five graded stakes including the Malibu and Pat O'Brien stakes (both G1), stood for $25,000 at Lane's End Farm in Kentucky and AU$11,000 at Newgate Farm in Australia in 2017.

Creator, winner of the 2016 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets and Arkansas Derby (both G1), was imported to Japan prior to the 2017 breeding season, and will also stand for ¥2,000,000.

Johannesburg, who has been at JBBA since 2010 has two Japanese-bred graded stakes winners and will stand for ¥1,800,000 (about $16,000). Grade 1 winner Eskendereya who started his stud duty in Japan in 2016, stands for ¥1,500,000 ($13,158).

Three-time grade 1 winner Aldebaran has stood in Japan since 2009 and is located at JBBA Aomori. His fee will be reduced from ¥300,000 in 2017 to ¥200,000 in 2018.

Came Home, the multiple grade 1 winner who stood at JBBA Shizunai for ¥500,000 in 2017, will relocate to JBBA Kyushu for a fee of ¥200,000 in 2018.

A strong crop of 2-year-olds in 2017 prompted Evelyn Benoit's Brittlyn Stable to raise the stud fee for homebred Star Guitar to $7,500 for the 2018 breeding season.

The four-time Louisiana Horse of the Year and winner of 22 black-type stakes out of 30 starts has been represented this year by 11 juvenile winners from 21 starters. His top 2-year-olds include stakes winners Testing One Two, a daughter out of Yes Sir (Scat Daddy) who won the Louisiana Jewel Stakes, and Aceguitar, a colt out of Cherub Heart (Dehere) who won the Louisiana Cup Juvenile Stakes and finished second in the Texas Thoroughbred Futurity. Star Guitar also sired Givemeaminit, out of Powerful Nation (Turkoman), who finished third in the grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

"Star Guitar is certainly passing on his will to win that he demonstrated with his race record of 24 wins from 30 starts," said Benoit, who has stood Star Guitar at Clear Creek Stud near Folsom, La., since he entered stud in 2013 at $4,000.